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One new highly infectious COVID-19 variant is spreading across Britain while another, imported from South Africa, is under investigation by experts. A New Zealander in the UK, Ranko Berich, described the situation for fellow Kiwis as "hundreds of people in dire straits". He has been trying to get home with his wife and two young children, having left his job and given notice on his flat, but they have found themselves in the thick of travel disruption. Hundreds of flights were cancelled after S...

Budget 2021 will be delivered on Thursday 20 May, Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced today. “My focus continues to be on making sure spending is targeted at the areas and people that need it the most. “We will manage the books carefully including ensuring we are getting value for money ... 3 days ago Morena ki a tatau, Tena tatau i nga kaupapa hauora, E tuitui nei i a tatau i tēnei ata, Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou katoa. When we were re-elected with a clear mandate for change, our ...

How I swapped lockdown Britain for the paradise of Covid-free New Zealand Stringent measures mean it’s increasingly difficult for Kiwis living overseas to return home. Belinda Craigie managed to find a way in. 24 December 2020 • 10:37am It was an unusual travel scenario, though perhaps befitting in what has been a truly bizarre year. Bleary-eyed and exhausted, I had been guided by uniformed Defence Force personnel through health and administrative procedures and then to a hotel room which I...

Cases of Covid-19 are being found daily in the country’s border facilities, but that won’t stop them from throwing together a Christmas like none before it, complete with face masks and social distancing. Following Jacinda Ardern’s decision to give Santa and his reindeer a pass to avoid a stint at a border facility, and presumably clearing them of biosecurity rules as well, Christmas is coming to the country’s managed-isolation hotels. While most New Zealanders won’t need to think muc...

Koff 4 Parked under a coolibah tree by a billabong in the Paroo River. No swagmen or women, jumbucks, troopers, grey nomads, santas, coronaviruses or anyone else in sight, just the odd emu family. Christmas in the Queensland outback is oddly cool and green. Cheers to all! I Feel Love 5

Budget 2021 will be delivered on Thursday 20 May, Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced today. “My focus continues to be on making sure spending is targeted at the areas and people that need it the most. “We will manage the books carefully including ensuring we are getting value for money ... 3 days ago Morena ki a tatau, Tena tatau i nga kaupapa hauora, E tuitui nei i a tatau i tēnei ata, Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou katoa. When we were re-elected with a clear mandate for change, our ...

Covid-19: Hundreds of Kiwi military staff need psychological check-ups Military personnel enter the Sudima Hotel in Christchurch. Photo / NZH Covid-19: Hundreds of Kiwi military staff need psychological check-ups Sun, 20 Dec 2020, 9:38AM Hundreds of Defence Force workers were exposed to "critical incidents" that required psychological check-ups after working in Managed Isolation and Quarantine. Almost 2000 staff from the NZ Defence Force who worked on Operation Protect were ...

Covid-19: Six new cases in managed isolation © Reuters There have been six new cases of Covid-19 reported in managed isolation facilities in New Zealand today, including one traveller who arrived from Australia. In a statement the Ministry of Health said there were no new community cases. The six new coronavirus cases in managed isolation include: One who arrived on 8 December from Australia. One case who arrived on 8 December from South Africa. One person who arrived on 10 December from the ...

Two surveys were carried out: a critical incident exposure questionnaire, and the Managed Isolation and Quarantine Facilities exit well-being questionnaire. Staff were asked if people in isolation and quarantine facilities had been argumentative or abusive towards them, if thered been significant interactions with media, if theyd been asked to removed a body or remains from the site, what their mood was during the operation, if thered been any impact to their families, and if the operation had ...

Working in isolation facilities can be draining and stressful, psychologist says © Photo: 123RF A psychologist said medical professionals have talked to her about the stress of possibly passing on the virus to family members. A psychologist says defence force personnel are probably struggling with the mental strain of working in isolation facilities, for the same reasons health workers do. Yesterday RNZ reported that about 10 percent of the nearly 2000 defence force staff surveyed by the mil...